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Public Address 30/10/9 - Lounge Toy Looking At You
Sunday, 1 November 2009, 10:30 pm | Public Address
The police will be able to take DNA samples from people they "intend" to arrest, even though the Attorney General himself thinks it's incompatible with the Bill of Rights. A range of agencies have new search and surveillance powers. And a new asset ... More >>
Public Address 27/10/09 - On The Taking Of Offence
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 8:07 pm | Public Address
Finlay Macdonald had a lash at "the national pastime of taking offence" in his Star Times column on Sunday. And at the "pious, bullying scolds" in the news media and the "purse-lipped professional offence-takers" and "bleating pantywaists" who stoke ... More >>
Public Address 23/10/09 - Dunce Dunce Revolution
Friday, 23 October 2009, 2:05 pm | Public Address
Here's an irony: in the same month that it becomes clear that educational funding will be diverted from arts and sciences into the narrow curriculum embodied in the government's national standards policy, we can read a major report that doesn't merely ... More >>
Public Address 20/10/09 - Of swine and cows
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 3:36 pm | Public Address
Of swine and cows | Oct 20, 2009 14:21 Russell Brown's Hard News In this week's Media7 we're looking at conspiracy theories -- for which it has been a vintage media year. All the action right now is around swine flu and the vaccine against it. In ... More >>
Public Address 19/10/09 - Getting Across the Harbo
Monday, 19 October 2009, 11:31 am | Public Address
I'm delighted to learn that the visionary proposal for a grand span seems to be being taken seriously as an option for a new harbour crossing for Auckland. Its latest incarnation -- as an ANZAC centenary project, due for delivery 2015 -- offers a ready ... More >>
Public Address 15/10/09 - Home and Away
Thursday, 15 October 2009, 4:45 pm | Public Address
So it turns out that I didn't come to a sticky end in Sumatra, in case you were wondering. I did see my first shark while diving, but it scarpered before I could so much as get my camera out. There was an earthquake, but it was about 500 or... More >>
Public Address 14/10/09 - After the Deluge
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 11:25 am | Public Address
Well four weeks or so with our Freeview recorder and I really love it. I have managed to watch all sorts of programs when I get a minute, rather than having to be 'on the spot'. I can't rave enough about the recording features and just Freeview itself. ... More >>
Public Address 13/10/09 - Do these people talk?
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 2:50 pm | Public Address
The All Blacks can rest easy. As incoherent as some of their team play has been this year, it looks orderly and disciplined in comparison to their government's handling of 2011 Rugby World Cup TV rights. The news today, presaged in this morning's Herald, ... More >>
Public Address 12/10/09 - I'd just like to thank..
Monday, 12 October 2009, 1:04 pm | Public Address
One thing that might not be apparent to TV viewers of the New Zealand Music Awards is that it's sometimes quite hard to follow what's going on from the tables on the show floor. The presenters don't always project, and from the back half of the room, ... More >>
Public Address 05/10/09 - In the Game
Monday, 5 October 2009, 1:50 pm | Public Address
I'm with Trevor Mallard on Maori Television's bid for Rugby Word Cup TV rights. If the broadcaster was bidding with its own resources that would be one thing-- but for it to do so with $3 million promised without reference to Cabinet by the Minister ... More >>
Public Address: Invasion Of The Pagan Matrons
Monday, 28 September 2009, 10:46 am | Public Address
As I enjoyed the World of WearableArts awards night on Friday, I thought about the extent to which WOW is for, by and about women. More than two thirds of the 33-strong production team, including the event's founders and creative leaders, are women. ... More >>
Public Address 25/09/09 - Bowie the Big Day Out
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:07 pm | Public Address
Would you like David Bowie headlining the Big Day Out next year? The Triple M website this week flagged Bowie as 2010's potential "superstar attraction", and a Ken West posted the brief comment "david bowie is confirmed" on an Australian concert listings ... More >>
Public Address 17/09/09 - The crazy
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 4:10 pm | Public Address
The October issue of Vanity Fair magazine includes this year's "New Establishment" list. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein tops the list, while the usual suspects -- Jobs, Bezos, Murdoch, Buffet, the Google founders -- jostle around in the Top 10. ... More >>
Public Address 15/09/09 - Undie W*nkers
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 1:44 pm | Public Address
Am I alone in thinking that some of the Dunedin student rioters have a nerve feeling sorry for themselves and their potentially blemished brilliant careers? Does it occur to any of them that they've already had a lot more leeway than some poor, brown kid ... More >>
Public Address 14/09/09 - Party of good science
Monday, 14 September 2009, 3:35 pm | Public Address
I felt sorry for the man who had, unwisely, chosen the seat between me and the screen. Through no fault of his own the gentleman was subjected to some incredibly loud swear words. Some of which were created especially for certain situations in the third ... More >>
Public Address 11/09/09 - Mix Your Members
Friday, 11 September 2009, 4:07 pm | Public Address
When I flipped open the laptop last night to discover that the Mt Smart Supertop was on fire, I thought "Bloody hell!" When I checked later to discover the tent had been saved, I thought "Bugger!" The old tent has long been an embarrassment, if a ... More >>
Public Address 10/09/09 - America: Chill out!
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 12:07 pm | Public Address
"Could it be," asked our American commentator Tracey Barnett on Media7 last week, "that the entire country is pre-menstrual?" She was referring, of course to the craziness around plans for US healthcare reform. Frankly, I think the comparison does a great ... More >>
Public Address 08/09/09 - Screen Wars
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 3:05 pm | Public Address
The least appealing aspect of the television business is always the politics, as this week's flap over the unscreened footage of the Qantas Film and Television Awards amply demonstrates. TV3, it would appear, is being petty in refusing TVNZ access ... More >>
Public Address 07/09/09 - More Talk About Drugs
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:58 pm | Public Address
His New Zealand hosts will have had mixed feelings about Dana Beal's interview with Kim Hill on Saturday. On one hand, his appearance started the conversation they want to have about a controversial addiction therapy: iobgaine treatment. On the other ... More >>
Public Address 03/09/09 - The son that got away
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 12:31 pm | Public Address
There's a good deal that can't be said about the so-called "Timaru Lady", whose Section 59 acquittal on charges of assaulting her son with a riding crop and a cane really began the recent smacking madness. The permanent suppression order the followed her ... More >>
